My sister-in-law (and other BFF, besides Jacinda), Stevee, recently moved to LA and has been in a decorating frenzy, getting her new place all situated for my husband’s twin and my niece and nephew. She asked me to whip up some pillows for her, and I was happy to oblige.

I made several pillows for her using our How to Sew A Zipper Pillow tute (don’t fear the zipper friends, you can do this!) and some really fun machine patterns I found online…

as well as a few I made myself (hello, LIZ LEMON PILLOW)…

Check out the sources for these patterns and more DIY embroidered pillow eye-candy after the jump…

First up is my favorite. I sewed this pillow for Stevee because she is obsessed with wolves. She just is, I can’t tell you why. So of course I wanted to find her the perfect wolf to embroider, and I chose a luscious deep pink velveteen from my local fabric shop. I had to make it in metallic gold thread, because much like Macklemore, she’s feeling like GOLD (goldschlager faded, 14-carat plated).
This pattern can be found on Urban Threads, it’s called Wild Wolf.

Of course, one good wolf pillow deserves a friend. I chose this pattern to coordinate with an unauthorized Stevee-artwork-purchase to which I was a witness/accessory (once on a road trip from Nashville to Gatlinburg, she defied all non-spending orders from my BIL and snagged this steel-cut steer skull wall art), I decided to go with this classicly lined drawing known as Western Splendor.

For her bedroom, she handed me a few yards of denim and told me to go to town. I wanted to pull the thread of gold-ness (Everything is gold, everything is equal/Posted on the porch just chillin’, me and my people) throughout the house, so I repeated the gold metallic thread with a similar light-stitched machine pattern called Raven’s Reach.

Of course, my favorite is still my Liz Lemon pillow, made with a font that comes with my embroidery machine and loving detailed with some piping (learn how to make one from our How to Sew a Zipper Pillow with Piping tutorial). I want to go to there.

What do you think ladies, do you have the machine embroidery bug? What should I make for Stevee next?